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Objection to Python on embedded hardware

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https://x.com/BitcoinPierre/status/2085541313014059218

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A one-line reply to the vendor's fallback correction, held at coldcardwallet-2085541034243600805, in which COLDCARD explains that the weak generator was MicroPython's built-in general-purpose RNG rather than a Coinkite fallback and that it became reachable through a link-time error. Pierre Rochard's response is that a security-critical embedded application should perhaps not have used Python at all. Short, but held because it is a named industry figure putting the language-and-runtime choice, rather than the specific build flag, at the centre of the failure, which is a distinct position from both the vendor's account and the malice reading. It is an opinion and asserts no facts this record could check.

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